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Chicanx

Chicanx

See also: chicanx

English

Adjective

Chicanx

  1. (neologism) Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).
    • 2016, Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich, Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America (ISBN 1315530880):
      By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]
    • 2016, Iris D. Ruiz, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities (ISBN 113753673X):
      We can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.
    • 2016, Dána-Ain Davis, Christa Craven, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges,... (ISBN 0759122466):
      Chicanx and Latinx

Noun

Chicanx (plural Chicanxs)

  1. (neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).
    • 2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4: It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.
    • 2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30:
      In California, Chicanxs/Latinxs high school graduares are rising [...] [sic]

chicanx

chicanx

See also: Chicanx

Spanish

Noun

chicanx

  1. (uncommon) gender-neutral form of chicano or chicana
    • 2010 June, Peter Gelderloos, Cómo la no violencia protege al Estado (Spanish edition), page 56, quoting and translating David Gilbert, No Surrender:
      lxs nativxs americanxs, lxs chicanxs o lxs puertorriqueñxs
    • 2015 December 12–13, Lanzate, page 11:
      poblaciones latinxs y chicanxs